China Miéville recently spoke with Doug Brown, one of the staff members from Powell's Books, about his new book The City and the City. Over the course of the interview he used the word "paradigm" eight times, referenced Jan Švankmajer as an inspiration, and said the phrase "academic milieu" in a non-ironic way. Reading it was like a horrific tour of the most pretentious experiences of my entire educational career, and, sadly, he didn't even mention the possibility of a sequel to Un Lun Dun.

He's probably too busy watching Czech art-house films about murdering tree root-babies to write one.

Labels: China Miéville, Interviews